“Picturesque Berlin” (“Das malerische Berlin”) is the title of a remarkable small album series published by the Märkisches Museum between 1911 and 1914. Each part of the series offered twelve black and white photographs by well-known photographers of the time. The photographs were mounted on large-format cardboard sheets and bound together with a preface – in volumes 2 and 3 also with explanations by the art historian and author Max Osborn (1870–1946) – in a simple cord binding to form large-format booklets. The photographs in the volumes are still highly attractive today and show a Prussian capital that no longer exists in this form, including its typical rear buildings and the architecture of several centuries, which in many cases merged into one another.
- Historical original title of the album: Das malerische Berlin. Bilder und Blicke. Herausgegeben vom Märkischen Museum. Dritte Folge. Verlag von Julius Bard, Berlin.
- Technique, material: Album as a large-format booklet with cord binding, 12 picture panels (black and white photographs mounted on cardboard, pre-bound introduction and picture explanations written by Max Osborn (12 pp., but not paginated)
- Artist: mainly Waldemar Titzenthaler (1869–1937), Rudolf Dührkoop (1848–1918)
- Date: published 1914
- Format: 28.5 x 36.5 cm (album size), photographs approx. 16 x 21.5
All pictures of the album (enlarge by clicking):
